Motivational Quotes

Victory

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

- Polybius

Best Quotes about Victory

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

Meir, Golda

Victory lies with the truth.

Motto

Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory.

Virgil

Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

Beecher, Henry Ward

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.

Arthur Golden

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

I will attained victory by God and my sword.

Motto

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

Spengler, Oswald

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Victory; a matter of staying power.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

Churchill, Winston

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Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

Plato

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There is Jackson with his Virginians, standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.

Bee, Bernard Elliot

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Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.

Herrick, Robert

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Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

Abraham Lincoln

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We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.

Edward Gibbon

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No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Horace Mann

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Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them.

King, Basil

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I feel sorry for someone who has to win at everything.

Snoopy

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Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.

Sun-tzu

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Victory is increased by concord.

Motto

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Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded...

Lorde, Audre

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We have all eternity to celebrate our victories, but only one short hour before sunset in which to win them.

Moffat, Robert

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The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

Foch, Ferdinand

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The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

Lao-Tzu

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Pardon is the choicest flower of victory.

Proverb, Arabian

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The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

Hoffman, Paul

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A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.

Lao-Tzu

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Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

Polybius

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There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Survival is triumph enough.

Crews, Harry

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Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.

Proverb

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The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, physically, morally and spiritually defeated.

Wickett, F. A.

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The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.

Cosell, Howard

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Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Covey, Stephen R.

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What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.

Alger, William R.

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No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.